It didn't take long for the Fort Myers City Council to decide - Saeed Kazemi -- was the man for the city manager position.

It was a unanimous decision among the seven members that decided to hire the city's public work's director, who has been with Fort Myers for more than 20 years.

More than 60 candidates put their name in the hat for the city manager position featuring many qualified people from around the country. But only three others, besides Kazemi, made it to the final round of public interviews Tuesday night.

In the end and after just a matter of minutes, the council felt Kazemi had the background to bring Fort Myers in the right direction. And a big emphasis Tuesday night was on Fort Myers crime.

We asked the new city manager how he plans to combat the violence and murder in Fort Myers.

"We are going to get the community together. We are far apart from the community. I want to put the communities together and work together with the police," said Kazemi. "Police need to be part of the community, and I will work hard, and I will work hard to get that trust, and I want to trust. And I want to people to trust the city, to trust the police, our officers, our great officers, I want to trust."

Other ideas were shared on how to integrate officers into the community. One suggestion was offering officers a bonus to live among low-income housing and have police saturation in areas of high crime rates.

Kazemi had been serving as the interim city manager since October. The city will now have to find a permanent fit to fill Kazemi's old position as the public work's director.